Gay Is The New Straight
I just read the paper this morning and there was an article about the gay party in sentosa. Apparently an MP raised the issue that such parties were spreading the scourge of AIDS and HIV. That's not exactly his theory but an unnamed medical professional's. First thing I thought was this was just absolutely ridiculous. In recent times, the gay community in general has gained greater awareness amongst the non-gays. Its even a topic of debate in parliament as to whether employing gays in govt positions is ok. Gay guys have been appearing on TV shows for quite a while now and quite often, I find them entertaining because there's a gay couple in Amazing Race 7. (GO LYNN AND ALEX!) There are gay shows like Queer Eye playing in the US or Will and Grace. One of my favourite gay stereotypes in television is Sex and the City's Stanford!
Having seen Kinsey (god, he's such a drone) at Lido recently, I learned that there's a scale of how gay you are from 0-6. Most people are 0 or 1 but there are significant numbers of people who are somewhat gay or bi. Which basically means that its not as abnormal as you think. In times past, many people were gay or bi. Alexander was kinda gay too you know. (no I didn't learn that from the movie cos I didn't watch it) So the point I'm trying to make is society has largely tried to force people to believe that straight is the only way to draw a line. Anyone who doesn't follow the line automatically becomes an outcast, but if a substantial number of people are somewhat gay, does that make it normal or abnormal?
In Singapore, we remain largely conventional, traditional people, who tend to dislike change, preferring a more fixed, planned route. We get born, go to a government sponsered kindergarten, try to push our kids into a brand name primary school, then hope the buggers do well to keep going till they reach some goal of being a bespectacled doctor/engineer/life-scientist/computer dude. We create a norm, formed by religion, law, politics, "morals" and precedents. Gay is unacceptable for the auntie on the street, the obasan who rides the bus. Gay is bad. Gay people spread AIDS and bad morals. Hiring maids to look after your own children, ascribing to a material lifestyle, shoving people to get a seat on a train, fighting for cabs, fighting over stupid cat dolls remain just idiosyncrasies. Its just another facet of our kiasu syndrome. If not kiasu how to win? But gay? That's just wrong!
Whether or not a gay lifestyle is ok is up to oneself to decide. But assuming that gay people spread AIDS and gay parties spread AIDS is just stupid. People fuck around everywhere and anyone is susceptible to AIDS. Shouldn't protection and safe sex be the issue with AIDS? Why is there some stigma that gay parties spread AIDS? Is it because people think they're dirty or something? Gay people go through the same stuff that straight people do as well. They have the same fears, hopes, insecurities, loves. They fall in love, they have affairs, they fuck, they remain celibate, they eat sushi, they shop. So do straight people. A lot of whom are suppressing their gay tendencies.
What would life be without gay people? Well, there would'nt be Dolce & Gabbana for one. So tai-tais out there should embrace gay people with wide open arms. We wouldn't have Socrates, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Andy Warhol, Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Tchaikovsky and a whole lotta other people.
Its not so much that I'm some gay rights activist but more so that I think stupidity should be banished instead. Fuck stupid people.
I think the auntie that whacked me on the bus the last time was a Nazi rightist. (this was a randomly generated sentence, ignore.)
Having seen Kinsey (god, he's such a drone) at Lido recently, I learned that there's a scale of how gay you are from 0-6. Most people are 0 or 1 but there are significant numbers of people who are somewhat gay or bi. Which basically means that its not as abnormal as you think. In times past, many people were gay or bi. Alexander was kinda gay too you know. (no I didn't learn that from the movie cos I didn't watch it) So the point I'm trying to make is society has largely tried to force people to believe that straight is the only way to draw a line. Anyone who doesn't follow the line automatically becomes an outcast, but if a substantial number of people are somewhat gay, does that make it normal or abnormal?
In Singapore, we remain largely conventional, traditional people, who tend to dislike change, preferring a more fixed, planned route. We get born, go to a government sponsered kindergarten, try to push our kids into a brand name primary school, then hope the buggers do well to keep going till they reach some goal of being a bespectacled doctor/engineer/life-scientist/computer dude. We create a norm, formed by religion, law, politics, "morals" and precedents. Gay is unacceptable for the auntie on the street, the obasan who rides the bus. Gay is bad. Gay people spread AIDS and bad morals. Hiring maids to look after your own children, ascribing to a material lifestyle, shoving people to get a seat on a train, fighting for cabs, fighting over stupid cat dolls remain just idiosyncrasies. Its just another facet of our kiasu syndrome. If not kiasu how to win? But gay? That's just wrong!
Whether or not a gay lifestyle is ok is up to oneself to decide. But assuming that gay people spread AIDS and gay parties spread AIDS is just stupid. People fuck around everywhere and anyone is susceptible to AIDS. Shouldn't protection and safe sex be the issue with AIDS? Why is there some stigma that gay parties spread AIDS? Is it because people think they're dirty or something? Gay people go through the same stuff that straight people do as well. They have the same fears, hopes, insecurities, loves. They fall in love, they have affairs, they fuck, they remain celibate, they eat sushi, they shop. So do straight people. A lot of whom are suppressing their gay tendencies.
What would life be without gay people? Well, there would'nt be Dolce & Gabbana for one. So tai-tais out there should embrace gay people with wide open arms. We wouldn't have Socrates, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Andy Warhol, Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Tchaikovsky and a whole lotta other people.
Its not so much that I'm some gay rights activist but more so that I think stupidity should be banished instead. Fuck stupid people.
I think the auntie that whacked me on the bus the last time was a Nazi rightist. (this was a randomly generated sentence, ignore.)
posted by Unknown @ 1:33 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:18 AM,
Anonymous said…
For some funny shit about gays written by a gay, u have:
Ultra-right wing conservatives think sex with the same gender is what makes someone gay. But they’re wrong. That’s what makes someone homosexual. What makes someone gay is knowing Madonna’s entire discography, including obscure imports and extended remixes. If you’re the local Trivial Pursuit champion or can guess the title of a song from a one-second charades clue, guess what? You’re GAY.
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